I do not see how to adjust the interior circle size of the light blue watch object. I want to make the watch thicker.
I cannot find anything to select or adjust for the interior circle. I tried adjusting the stroke style by increasing the width, but nothing changed. I see no nodes for the interior circle.
When it´s a circle with a given stroke thickness you can change this in the Fill and color panel. Hard to tell from here - could be it´s just a bitmap you have to turn into vector data first.
Thanks for the reply. I uploaded the wrong image, and I am sorry it might have wasted your time. I have fixed my post above to have the correct screen shot.
Notice that there are no nodes to grab on the inner circle part of the path.
There is no white, or clear, circle that I can find that somehow sticks with this path and negates the fill.
I figured that the border of the path must be filled with a specific size brush, but when I change the stroke style to have a larger width, nothing happens.
When I move one of the exterior nodes, the interior circle remains as is, which further makes it clear that this is not a stroke size problem. See below, I moved the node circled in red, and that just clipped off the exterior part of the path. There must be some sort of ... I think I found it.
There is a "release clip" right click menu item on the object in the layer display. When I chose that, I have a circle of the correct size that I can adjust, and there's another object in the layer thing next to the original.
I wish I had a suggestion for how to make this more obvious, but I don't know enough about the whole thing to make a suggestion.
If there is a clip, once released, there must be atop the blue shape another one, that should look like a rectangle with a hole inside (turn its fill to red, give it a 50% opacity to see what's going on).
From this shape, get the inner circle : select it and do path > break apart. Now you should have two objects instead of one : delete the rectangle and resize the circle, holding ctrl and shift key.
Then select blue shape and circle and do path > difference.
Hi, I'm glad you found how to edit that inner circle. Note that the presence of a clip was indicated with the scissors icon on the object in the right panel (see attached image). Also note that the clip could be edited without releasing it using the button in the toolbar shown in the image.
@johntaves There´s something odd in the screenshot. There should be a green stroke representing the clipping path. I´m not able to get the look nor to the clipping path itself with 1.4 (macOS).
Otherwise: release clip - select thick circle and go Path->Stroke to Path - select both elements and go Path->Intersection for this result:
@Polygon I've made a circle and combined it with the watch, so I have the same set of nodes as your red version above. I don't see how you managed to select that top node, then select all 4, then get the resizer for that set of nodes.
@johntaves There´s something odd in the screenshot. There should be a green stroke representing the clipping path. I´m not able to get the look nor to the clipping path itself with 1.4 (macOS).
I guess the option wasn't enabled when doing the screenshot (rightest icon in tools control bar), same thing for the (very smart) resizing you show : the option must be enabled (third icon from right in tools control bar).
@polygon : of course you know how to enable these options, I had no doubt 😄
If this option isn't enabled you get the same result than the image of post#1, though. I guess theses options have been enabled on your PC for years and maybe you forgot it could be different.
It was just a precision to help other users, don't mind 😉.
If this option isn't enabled you get the same result than the image of post#1, though
I don‘ t - that‘s why I asked. I will upload my file in a few hours when I’m back in studio for you to check out. As I said I‘m not able to manage to get the same visuals.
Basically, it creates from the circle the kind of clipping path I've drawn : it adds a rectangle bigger than the clipped path, combines it with the 'cliping' path and sets a clip (that's what I guess, I'm not sure).
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I do not see how to adjust the interior circle size of the light blue watch object. I want to make the watch thicker.
I cannot find anything to select or adjust for the interior circle. I tried adjusting the stroke style by increasing the width, but nothing changed. I see no nodes for the interior circle.
I have 1.4
I apologize for being clueless
When it´s a circle with a given stroke thickness you can change this in the Fill and color panel. Hard to tell from here - could be it´s just a bitmap you have to turn into vector data first.
Thanks for the reply. I uploaded the wrong image, and I am sorry it might have wasted your time. I have fixed my post above to have the correct screen shot.
Notice that there are no nodes to grab on the inner circle part of the path.
There is no white, or clear, circle that I can find that somehow sticks with this path and negates the fill.
I figured that the border of the path must be filled with a specific size brush, but when I change the stroke style to have a larger width, nothing happens.
When I move one of the exterior nodes, the interior circle remains as is, which further makes it clear that this is not a stroke size problem. See below, I moved the node circled in red, and that just clipped off the exterior part of the path. There must be some sort of ... I think I found it.
There is a "release clip" right click menu item on the object in the layer display. When I chose that, I have a circle of the correct size that I can adjust, and there's another object in the layer thing next to the original.
I wish I had a suggestion for how to make this more obvious, but I don't know enough about the whole thing to make a suggestion.
If there is a clip, once released, there must be atop the blue shape another one, that should look like a rectangle with a hole inside (turn its fill to red, give it a 50% opacity to see what's going on).
From this shape, get the inner circle : select it and do path > break apart. Now you should have two objects instead of one : delete the rectangle and resize the circle, holding
ctrlandshiftkey.Then select blue shape and circle and do path > difference.
Hi, I'm glad you found how to edit that inner circle. Note that the presence of a clip was indicated with the scissors icon on the object in the right panel (see attached image). Also note that the clip could be edited without releasing it using the button in the toolbar shown in the image.
@johntaves There´s something odd in the screenshot. There should be a green stroke representing the clipping path. I´m not able to get the look nor to the clipping path itself with 1.4 (macOS).
Otherwise: release clip - select thick circle and go Path->Stroke to Path - select both elements and go Path->Intersection for this result:
@Polygon I've made a circle and combined it with the watch, so I have the same set of nodes as your red version above. I don't see how you managed to select that top node, then select all 4, then get the resizer for that set of nodes.
@Polygon, @aperitero, and @David248 thanks for the help!
I guess the option wasn't enabled when doing the screenshot (rightest icon in tools control bar), same thing for the (very smart) resizing you show : the option must be enabled (third icon from right in tools control bar).
@David248 I know how to enable clipping paths: Can you display the same visual appearance shown in #1?
Got it! Show transformation handles for selected nodes was the last thing I needed!
I can now easily resize that inner circle.
Thanks to all of you!
@polygon : of course you know how to enable these options, I had no doubt 😄
If this option isn't enabled you get the same result than the image of post#1, though. I guess theses options have been enabled on your PC for years and maybe you forgot it could be different.
It was just a precision to help other users, don't mind 😉.
I don‘ t - that‘s why I asked. I will upload my file in a few hours when I’m back in studio for you to check out. As I said I‘m not able to manage to get the same visuals.
@David248 here you go:
I understand now why you did wonder how : IMHO the drawing was designed another way, with something like a flattened inverse clip.
@David248 Thanks for checking. Unfortunately "Inverse Clip" never worked (and never will?) on macOS.
Basically, it creates from the circle the kind of clipping path I've drawn : it adds a rectangle bigger than the clipped path, combines it with the 'cliping' path and sets a clip (that's what I guess, I'm not sure).
Sounds reasonable. I ´m used to generate it manually so no big brainer. Just the look confuses me. But hey: Whatever works.